BBC News 24BBC NewsBBC News (also known as the
BBC NewsBBC News Channel) is the BBC's 24-hour
rolling news television network in the United Kingdom. The channel
launched as
BBC NewsBBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17:30 as part of the
BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the
first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.[1]
For a time, looped news, sport and weather bulletins were available to
view via
BBCBBC Red Button.
On 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at
the
Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the
first time in its history.[2] The judges remarked that this was the
year that the channel had "really come into its own."[3]
From May 2007, UK viewers could watch the channel via the
BBCBBC News
website
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BBC News At TenBBC NewsBBC News at Ten — also known as the
BBCBBC Ten O'Clock News or the Ten
O'Clock News — is the flagship evening news programme for British
television channel
BBC OneBBC One and the
BBC NewsBBC News channel. It is presented
by Huw Edwards, and deputised by Fiona Bruce. It is Monday to Sunday
at 10:00pm on
BBCBBC One. The programme was controversially moved from
9:00pm on 16 October 2000. The main presenter simultaneously holds the
lead presenter role for major events, election night (from 2015) and
breaking news for
BBCBBC News.
The programme features thirty minutes of British national and
international news, with an emphasis on the latter
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Royal Television Society
The Royal Television Society, or RTS, is a British-based educational
charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its
forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society
in the world. It currently has thirteen regional and national centres
in the UK, as well as a branch in the Republic of Ireland.Contents1 History
2 Activities
3 Awards
4 RTS Futures
5 Presidents of the Society
6 References
7 External linksHistory[edit]
The group was formed as The Television Society on 7 September 1927,[2]
a time when television was still very much in its experimental stage.
Regular high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines)
broadcasts did not even begin for another nine years until the BBC
began its transmissions from
Alexandra PalaceAlexandra Palace in 1936.[3]
In addition to serving as a forum for scientists and engineers, the
society published regular newsletters charting the development of the
new medium
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WightFibreWightFibreWightFibre is the cable network operator on the Isle of Wight.
WightFibreWightFibre provides telephone and broadband internet services. It is
the last remaining cable company in the UK which is not part of Virgin
Media which, since March 2006, has operated more than 95% of cable
services in the UK.
Historically
WightFibreWightFibre has operated a hybrid fibre-coaxial network
(HFC) service around 25% of the Island. In November 2017 WightFibre
secured £35M of funding from Infracapital Parners (ICP, part of
M&G Investments) matched funded by private investors and the UK
Governments Digital Infrastructure Fund
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IPTVInternet ProtocolInternet Protocol television (IPTV) is the delivery of television
content over
Internet ProtocolInternet Protocol (IP) networks. This is in contrast to
delivery through traditional terrestrial, satellite, and cable
television formats. Unlike downloaded media,
IPTVIPTV offers the ability
to stream the source media continuously. As a result, a client media
player can begin playing the content (such as a TV channel) almost
immediately. This is known as streaming media.
Although
IPTVIPTV uses the
InternetInternet protocol it is not limited to
television streamed from the Internet, (
InternetInternet television).
IPTVIPTV is
widely deployed in subscriber-based telecommunications networks with
high-speed access channels into end-user premises via set-top boxes or
other customer-premises equipment
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SwisscomSwisscomSwisscom AG is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland.[4]
Its headquarters are located at Worblaufen near Bern.[5] The Swiss
Confederation owns 51.0 percent of
SwisscomSwisscom AG.[6] As of the end of
2015,
SwisscomSwisscom had around 21,000 employees and generated revenues of
CHF 11,678 billions.[7] In 2008,
SwisscomSwisscom acquired its five millionth
NATELNATEL customer, which means that the two thirds of the Swiss
population used the
SwisscomSwisscom mobile network [8] and in 2013 Swisscom
TV counted a million customers.[9]
The Swiss telegraph network was first set up in 1852, followed by
telephones in 1877. The two networks were combined with the postal
service in 1920 to form the PTT (Postal
TelegraphTelegraph and Telephone)
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MEO (Portugal)
Meo is a mobile and fixed telecommunications service and brand from
PortugalPortugal Telecom, managed by Meo - Serviços de Comunicações e
Multimédia. The service was piloted in
LisbonLisbon in 2006 and was later
extended to
PortoPorto and Castelo Branco.Contents1 History
2 Marketing
3 Service3.1 Television
3.2 MEO VideoClube
3.3 MEO Go
3.4 Internet
3.5 Telephone
3.6 Mobile phone4 Channels
5 Sponsorship
6 References
7 External linksHistory[edit]
The commercial launch of the ADSL2+ service took place in June 2007.
The satellite service began in April 2008, using the Hispasat
satellite, soon followed by the FTTH service
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Streaming MediaStreaming mediaStreaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and
presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. The verb
"to stream" refers to the process of delivering or obtaining media in
this manner; the term refers to the delivery method of the medium,
rather than the medium itself, and is an alternative to file
downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains the entire file
for the content before watching or listening to it.
A client end-user can use their media player to start playing the data
file (such as a digital file of a movie or song) before the entire
file has been transmitted. Distinguishing delivery method from the
media distributed applies specifically to telecommunications networks,
as most of the delivery systems are either inherently streaming (e.g.
radio, television, streaming apps) or inherently non-streaming (e.g.
books, video cassettes, audio CDs)
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BBC IPlayerBBCBBC iPlayer is an internet streaming, catchup, television and radio
service from the BBC. The service is available on a wide range of
devices, including mobile phones and tablets, personal computers, and
smart televisions. iPlayer services delivered to UK based viewers
feature no commercial advertising. The terms
BBCBBC iPlayer, iPlayer, and
BBCBBC Media Player refer to various methods for viewing or listening to
the same content
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BBC Red ButtonBBCBBC Red Button is a branding used for digital interactive television
services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom. The
services replaced Ceefax, the BBC's analogue teletext service. The
service can be accessed via
Digital terrestrial televisionDigital terrestrial television (DTT)
(DVB-T), satellite television (DVB-S) and cable television (DVB-C).[1]Contents1 History and branding1.1
BBCBBC Text (1999–2001)
1.2 The BBCi brand (2001–2008)
1.3 The
BBCBBC Red Button brand (2008)
1.4
BBCBBC Connected Red Button (2012)
1.5
BBCBBC Red Button+ (2015)2 Availability
3 Content
4 Compatibility
5 See also
6 ReferencesHistory and branding[edit]
The service was launched in September 1999 as
BBCBBC Text
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Digital TelevisionDigital televisionDigital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals,
including the sound channel, using digital encoding, in contrast to
the earlier television technology, analog television, in which the
video and audio are carried by analog signals. It is an innovative
advance that represents the first significant evolution in television
technology since color television in the 1950s.[1] Digital TV makes
more economical use of scarce radio spectrum space; it can transmit
multiple channels in the same bandwidth occupied by a single channel
of analog television,[2] and provides many new features that analog
television cannot. A switchover from analog to digital broadcasting
began around 2006 in some countries, and many industrial countries
have now completed the changeover, while other countries are in
various stages of adaptation
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Virgin MediaVirgin MediaVirgin Media Limited is a British company which provides fixed and
mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to
businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom. Its headquarters are
in Hook, Hampshire, United Kingdom.[2] The company has been a
subsidiary of
Liberty Global plc, an international television and
telecommunications company headquartered in London, since June 2013.
Virgin MediaVirgin Media previously had a primary listing on the
NASDAQNASDAQ Stock
Market and was a constituent of the
NASDAQ-100NASDAQ-100 index. It also had a
secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange.[1]
The company was formed in March 2006 by the merger of NTL and
Telewest, which created NTL:Telewest
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Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an artificial object
which has been intentionally placed into orbit. Such objects are
sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from
natural satellites such as Earth's Moon.
In 1957 the
Soviet UnionSoviet Union launched the world's first artificial
satellite, Sputnik 1. Since then, about 6,600 satellites from more
than 40 countries have been launched. According to a 2013 estimate,
3,600 remained in orbit.[1] Of those, about 1,000 were operational;[2]
while the rest have lived out their useful lives and become space
debris. Approximately 500 operational satellites are in low-Earth
orbit, 50 are in medium-Earth orbit (at 20,000 km), and the rest
are in geostationary orbit (at 36,000 km).[3] A few large
satellites have been launched in parts and assembled in orbit
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Digital Terrestrial TelevisionDigital terrestrial televisionDigital terrestrial television (DTTV or DTT) is a technology for
broadcast television in which land-based (terrestrial) television
stations broadcast television content by radio waves to televisions in
consumers' residences in a digital format. DTTV is a major
technological advance over the previous analog television, and is
replacing analog to become the new television broadcasting standard. A
changeover to DTTV began in 2006 and is now complete in many
countries
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